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Victor Mature plays Samson, the superstrong young Danite. DeMille's characteristically expansive retelling of the events found in the Old Testament passages of Judges 13-16. See full summary ».GEORGE SANDERS, HEDY LAMARR, ANGELA LANSBURY & VICTOR MATURESamson and Delilah is Cecil B. Much to their regret, they have not been able to have.

The film is based on a treatment by Harold Lamb and leading Zionist Vladimir Jabotinsky, who died in 1940, nine years before the film's release. "Tyranny rose!" exclaims the voiceover, "But deep in man's heart still burned the unquenchable will for freedom." There's a political message here for the 20th century. For Editorial Use Only.Chariot Photograph: Allstar/PARAMOUNT/Sportsphoto Ltd./AllstarThe tribe of Dan are oppressed by the cruel Philistines, which everyone in the film doggedly pronounces "Fliss-teens".

Director Cecil B DeMille was furious with Victor Mature for refusing to wrestle the real lion he procured for the scene, though the leading man gamely rolled around with a stuffed version in the close-ups. Or, rather, his stunt double does. Bravely, Samson leaps at it. No Book Cover UsageMandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore / Rex Features (2254543a)Samson and Delilah (1949) Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders,14463416 Photograph: Moviestore / Rex FeaturesDelilah drags Samson out to the desert, where they are waylaid by a lion.

Perhaps cutting that from the film was for the best: it could only have been upsetting for the foxes. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines". Aggrieved, Samson sets fire to the fields of the Philistines, though it seems even the great DeMille couldn't figure out a way to film this novel method of arson as described in the book of Judges: "Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. ArsonThe marriage doesn't work out. No dice: he still marries the blonde. "Oh, Samson!" She leaps upon him, considerably more rapacious than either the real or the fake lion.